‘Will we rise with the stars, or be washed away by the coming monsoons?’—This May, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five science fiction titles from the archipelagic Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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‘So we used the cutlass for the cane fields.’—Sharmini Aphrodite speaks to Rajiv Mohabir about coolieness and the plantation in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.
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In these exquisitely lyrical poems, Christian Emecheta reflects on the postcolonial uses of landscape and language.
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A short story by Preeta Samarasan lays bare one of the Malaysian state’s greatest sins.
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Cold rain, a kitchen cabinet, and the curl of a tongue: three poems by C. Aishwarya exploring migration and memory between New York and Singapore.
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‘They made me sink fully into myself, feel everything that has been lost, every person—named and unnamed by the writers of history—whose life was violently discarded.’—Reading Désirée Reynold’s Seduce (2013), an essay by Olivia Simone.
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‘The Tadjah does not disappear. It sediments, creating pores and possibilities of leakage: of values, practices, memories; across language, oceans, borders.’—procession, history and architecture kaleidoscope in Singapore’s Nagore Durgah, in this essay by Samira Hassan.
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Expressing a keen appreciation of the beauty and the damage to our homeland archipelago, Amilcar Peter Sanatan’s poems make us see and hear anew.
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SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces ARCHIPELAGIC ENTANGLEMENTS, our latest portfolio putting Southeast Asia and the Caribbean in conversation.
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